ORDINANCE
NO. 200778
Approving the termination of the
First Modification of the Troost Avenue: 63rd – 53rd Urban Renewal Plan
generally located at the northwest corner of 63rd Street and Troost Avenue.
WHEREAS, the Land
Clearance for Redevelopment Authority of Kansas City, Missouri (“LCRA”) is a
public body corporate and politic created by the Land Clearance for
Redevelopment Authority Law, Section 99.300, et seq., RSMo (“LCRA Law”), and is
transacting business and exercising the powers granted by the LCRA Law by
virtue of Committee Substitute for Ordinance No. 16120; and
WHEREAS, the
LCRA approved the Troost Avenue: 63rd – 53rd Urban Renewal Plan generally
located at the northwest corner of 63rd Street and Troost Avenue (“Plan”) on August 23. 1999, by Resolution 89 - 52; and
WHEREAS, the
City Council approved the Plan on February 1, 1999, by Ordinance No. 64763; and
WHEREAS, the
Plan, as originally approved by the City Council, provided that it would
continue for a period of twenty-five years, with ten (10) year extensions; and
WHEREAS, the
First Modification of the Plan was approved by City Council on September 1.
2005, by Ordinance No. 050969 with a fifteen (15) year term; and
WHEREAS, the
acquisition and rehabilitation project proposed in the First Modification was
never completed; and
WHEREAS, LCRA
approved the termination the First Modification of the Plan at its August 27,
2020 meeting, which will leave the underlying Troost Avenue: 63rd – 53rd Urban
Renewal Plan in-place; and
WHEREAS, LCRA
Law and Plan require that the City Council act with respect to such
termination, should it elect to approve the same; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED
BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
Section 1. That
the termination of the First Modification of the Troost Avenue: 63rd – 53rd
Urban Renewal Plan, as the same was previously approved by the City Council via
Ordinance No. 050969, is hereby approved.
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Approved
as to form and legality:
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Katherine
Chandler
Assistant City Attorney